Redmine Plugin - requires restart after every code change

Question

I am working on some plugin on redmine (project management web application written using Ruby on Rail).

For every change i make to the code of the plugin(say view.html.erb file), i have to restart the redmine(application) server. This is because, it runs on production mode by default.

Will running the application on development mode, solve this problem?

If yes, how can i change its running mode or over-ride this behavior so that classes are loaded per every request (yes this will not be efficient but will be good for development) and changes to the code reflect without restarting the application application server(redmine in this case)

I tried adding this line to environment.rb file

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'development'

Also tried answers/comments posted below, but they did'nt solve my problem.

Any working solution would be of great help.

Thank You.

Other Related information:

It uses Rails 2.3.14 and its installed using bitnami stack

Answer 1

For automatic plugin reload on Rails 2.3:

Add config.reload_plugins = true on config/environment.rb. It has to be there, you can't put it on config/environments/development.rb due to the Rails start up steps. You may add if RAILS_ENV = 'development' instead.

config/environment.rb

config.reload_plugins = true  

On the plugin's init.rb, add the following line: init.rb

ActiveSupport::Dependencies.explicitly_unloadable_constants = 'YourPluginModuleName' 

That's all. Don't forget to remove it when you're done.